Is it a good idea to encourage DS to do some study over the Xmas break?

[paulkal]

My brother has a son who is in his GCSE year and has been studying in a very methodical way so far but wants to completely take his foot off the gas pedal over the Christmas break. In principle my brother is in agreement with this, because he's worked hard this term, but he would rather that his DS did at least continue to read a book to maintain his language learning and continue with any controlled assessment projects he's started. Has anyone else exprienced anything similar with their DS or DD?

Cretaceous - my dd had 2 see through pencil cases with everything she needed for gcse - one permanently at school in her locker and one in her bag. She was paranoid she may forget it and be unnecessarily stressed

antimatter That will be my DD, when her time comes!
For my DS, his maths went fine. On the other hand, he had his science mock in the afternoon, and needed a calculator, which he didn't have with him... Still, apparently it still went fine, as he could see from the question what answer they wanted and he did put down his workings. How can he be so disorganised!!!

yes, we had 2 calculators too